Debian Security Advisory

DLA-953-1 graphicsmagick -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
26 May 2017
Affected Packages:
graphicsmagick
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 862967.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9098.
More information:

Chris Evans discovered that graphicsmagick used uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an remote attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory space.

More information are available at: https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.de/2017/05/bleed-continues-18-byte-file-14k-bounty.html

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.16-1.1+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your graphicsmagick packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS